Like Charlotte I would also love to visit but the distance is a bit too great. I'm sure you will have lots of appreciative visitors and wish you every success with your Open Studios event. The workshop looks very inviting.

Oh, this new space of yours looks so cosy and charming! I envy those who will step inside and feel the magic of your art and share the joy of meeting you!I wish you many happy moments and lots of inspiration inside and outside the friendly opened door!...:)

Dear Rima, I haven't commented for a long time, but I do come and read with delight your wonderful posts, revealing new and new worlds to us!I can't explain how surprised and thrilled I was when I heard you playing the Bulgarian song about Nikola - "Imala maika/edno mi chedo/edno mi chedo/Nikola..."!!!I followed with interest your and Tom's artistic performances and if I was living somewhere in England, we would have come with my husband and son to enjoy one of them, for sure!:)))Have a lovely Autumn!

You are all most welcome if you are passing through or dwelling in the south west :)

I should have mentioned that I'm just across the yard from the studio of Yuli Somme, felt artist (<a href="http://bellacouche.com<bellacouche.com</a>), which is also open to visitors, and an exhibition of landscape paintings by Angela Allerfeldt.

Scrytech - Smickelgrim has secreted a couple of masks in the corners of my exhibition, but his shop is mostly sold out, and waiting for new creations :)

And Rossichka - delighted to hear the words to Imala Majka - I hadn't heard them. It's a great tune, isn't it.

How wonderful! Congratulations!!! If I were suddenly to find myself in possession of a transporter, or a private jet plane, I would make sure to stop by. But know that I'll be one of many in spirit, wishing you all the best and very happy for you.

About Me

Rima Staines is an artist using paint, wood, word, music, animation, clock-making, puppetry & story to attempt to build a gate through the hedge that grows along the boundary between this world & that. Her gate-building has been a lifelong pursuit, & she hopes to have perhaps propped aside even one spiked loop of bramble (leaving a chink just big enough for a mud-kneeling, trusting eye to glimpse the beauty there beyond), before she goes through herself.

Always stubborn about living the things that make her heart sing, Rima lives with her partner Tom and their young son in Hedgespoken - an offgrid home and travelling theatre built on a vintage Bedford RL truck.

Rima’s inspirations include the world & language of folktale; faces of people who pass her on the street; folk music & art of Old Europe & beyond; peasant & nomadic living; magics of every feather; wilderness & plant-lore; the margins of thought, experience, community & spirituality; & the beauty in otherness.

Crumbs fall from Rima’s threadbare coat pockets as she travels, & can be found collected here, where you may join the caravan.